The World Does Not Belong To Us To Destroy
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This website is not a federal, state, county or city government created or controlled site. It is dedicated to the presentation of the truth and facts about this deadly project. The concern is that of Human survival on the Planet Earth and the continued existence of the planet itself. Therefore, this website is created by concerned people, not elected ones with corporate political agendas. This site has a primary focus for people all over the world - from people all over the world.
The Yucca Mountain Project involves nuclear waste transportation and storage from all around the world into one location, one state, Nevada, yet, with the concern from it's citizens other countries, such as Australia, are now looking to opt in to this waste storage program also.
As far as Nevada's position in this issue the Yucca Project is one of those government "you don't have a choice" programs that is being crammed down the throats of the Western Shoshone People, the State of Nevada and All Nevada Citizens with a total disregard of the peoples voice and has been for over 20 years. It is a long battle. Learn the truth. There is no spin here - just hard proven facts.
We also find that the Yucca Mountain Project is another major issue in the ongoing violations of the 1863 Ruby Valley Treaty between the United States of America and The Western Shoshone Nation. A Treaty that is protected by the Constitution of the United States as being the Law of the Land. Here you will find that the DOE, DOI, BLM, and a few other abriviations, are the key players in this deadly scenario.
We must inform our visitors that this site and its content does not support the Yucca Mountain Project at any level, as if you didn't notice by now, and will remain online until this issue is resolved. In other words, when this project is abandoned entirely - not only in Nevada - but anywhere in the world, then and only then, will our goal here be completed. Our intentions and our efforts are to keep you, The People, informed and Nevada Nuclear Free.
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Last of Plutonium
Leaves Colorado Facility
By JON SARCHE
Associated Press Writer
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - Crews have finished removing the last of more than 12 tons of weapons-grade plutonium left at Rocky Flats, marking a milestone in a $7 billion cleanup of the former nuclear weapons site that closed in 1989.
The 6,000-acre site 15 miles northwest of Denver is slated to become a national wildlife refuge after the $7 billion cleanup ends in 2006.
"Rocky Flats ... is no longer in the nuclear weapons business," Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said Tuesday in a statement issued in Washington.
Removal of the plutonium was finished 12 years ahead of schedule, Abraham said. The material will be shipped to a site South Carolina for conversion into fuel for nuclear reactors.
"It is the end of Rocky Flats' nuclear mission, and it brings us that much closer to the safe closure of Rocky Flats," said David Abelson, executive director of the Rocky Flats Coalition of Local Governments.
For 40 years, Rocky Flats manufactured plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons. When it was shut down in 1989 for safety violations, more than 12 metric tons of the highly radioactive metal was left.
Gene Schmitt, the Energy Department's site manager, said with the plutonium gone, about $2 million spent each month on security can be applied to cleanup work.
Shipments of plutonium to South Carolina began last summer in tractor-trailers guarded by armed federal agents under secret schedules. Former South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges lost a federal court fight to block the waste and was rebuked by a federal judge when he tried to ban the shipments.
Rocky Flats still has lower-grade waste, such as contaminated equipment, that will be transported to a site near Carlsbad, N.M.
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